The official RU-vid channel for Starting Strength and The Aasgaard Company.
The Starting Strength RU-vid channel provides video material supplementing the book Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training by Mark Rippetoe (instruction on the Squat, Press, Deadlift, Bench Press, Power Clean), instruction on other useful exercises, and presentations on the growing body of knowledge with respect to the effects of strength training on health by Starting Strength Coaches, Rippetoe, and guest speakers.
I don't get it: Look at the last guy Dead lifting. Rip is telling him to leave his hips up high, but they VISIBLY lower, before he pulls the bar up. Yet Rip says "Great". WTF!?
Didn’t expect rip to be a guy who has the same takes on Christianity as every edgy 13-year-old atheist. It’s a pretty smooth-brained move to say such things publicly, especially as a guy who is trying to establish a nationwide brand.
The same thoughts here. I like the brand. The lifts, the program surely work. Simplicity is key to basics that are key to everything. Rip taught me this applies to training. It is another take on the "never meet your hero", I guess.
Another thing is that it hurts people's egos to admit that they are rank novices and do simple stuff. People want to associate with successful people, have an edge and copy their programs. Not admit that they are beginners and do basics. Also if you accept simplicity you don't get to procrastinate and listen to more and more content, you have to act.
The wrist wrap works nothing like a belt. The belt does not support by itself, the belt allows you to engage (or whatever the word is) your abdominal muscles better against it (as opposed to against the air). So it is intra-abdominal pressure that provides support, not the belt. In case of wrist wrap, it is the wrap itself that supports.
Another thing I do is go below the wrist tightly for deadlifts. I don't like using the straps, I just think it's cheating. I do it just because I want to grip it harder without losing some forearm activation that the straps lessen
At 25:48 Campbell says using HCG keeps LH and FSH high. This is such a basic misunderstanding that NOTHING he says should be followed. HCG is a LH analogue, and will do nothing to raise it. As a man on trt, who has benefited from it, this podcast is nothing but propaganda. TRT has it's place, but to say that all men that have depression, libido or energy issues should be given trt by default is fucking nonsense.
This guy has the classic build of that dude who used to lift 20 years ago. Somewhat vascular forearms with the rest of the body being built like a ping pong paddle
